Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Website of the Week

The Foundation for California Community Colleges is the statewide non-profit supporting the California Community College system, the largest system of higher education in the nation. Incorporated in 1998, the Foundation serves as the official auxiliary to the California Community Colleges’ Board of Governors and the system-wide Chancellor’s Office.

The Foundation is the trusted partner of the California Community Colleges— facilitating collaboration, accelerating innovation, and increasing system-wide resources.

CollegeBuys, powered by the Foundation for California Community Colleges, offers discounts of up to 85 percent on a wide range of educational products—from industry-leading software and technology to high quality office and classroom furniture.

A student can currently buy a 4 year subscription to Microsoft Office 365 University for $79.95.

4 year subscription

Provides access to both Office 365 online services as well as a download of Office 2016 for Windows and Mac for up to 2 Desktop/laptops and 2 tablets/mobile devices.

Includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher*, and Access* as well as 60 Skype world minutes, 27GB of SkyDrive storage, and free version upgrades during the subscription period as they become available

Available to students, staff and faculty at higher education institutions ONLY.

Non-returnable.

They also have good deals on Adobe software, QuickBooks, and other software and hardware.

Getting Started with RSS

Getting Started
The Southwestern College Library now offers syndicated news feeds of some of its web content in the RSS format. RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, allows anyone with Internet access to keep up to date automatically with what is happening at the Southwestern College Library.

Using a news reader application, you can subscribe to any SWCL feed by following the subscription directions of the particular reader, or by clicking on the icon in the address box of RSS compatible web browsers like Firefox or Safari. Some of the more popular readers are Digg, Feedly, Newsblur and Newsvibe. News reader applications and browsers differ in how you may subscribe to a feed, so please consult your reader's help section if you are having problems.